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Word: skins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clue, he thought, lay in an enzyme called hyaluronidase, which exists in the testes, eyes, spleen, skin. He believed that it exists in large amounts in most cancers. He devised a urine test: the enzyme is extracted from the urine with ether, then mixed with a solution of fresh umbilical cord and rabbit serum. Two weeks ago, in the first issue of the new South Dakota Journal of Medicine and Pharmacy, he reported his findings: if the solution remains clear, the patient has the enzyme in his body in larger than normal amounts-and may have cancer. If the solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Solution Was Clear | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...Barbara Ann wins the Olympic title, will she turn pro? It is a good bet that she will. Hollywood is making eyes at her, so is at least one ice show, and 101 manufacturers of soaps and skin lotions would soon be waving $1,000 bills at her. Says Barbara Ann: "I wish people would stop saying I am going to turn professional all the time. There is no world competition in professional skating-and I like competition." This was obviously the right thing to say at this point, said the cynics at St. Moritz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ice Queen | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Incantations & TNT. Volcanoes, on the other hand, are less mysterious and more dangerous. Though they are worshiped as goddesses and damned as hellholes, bubbling craters are really just safety valves, through which molten rock (magma) under the earth's skin can blow off steam from time to time. Volcanoes can be depended on to act up every so often; since 79 A.D., when Pompeii and Herculaneum were first buried, old Vesuvius has popped off about once every generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: World Shakers | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...best nude in the Clay Club show-a pink marble La Victoire-was done by 43-year-old Burr Miller, who was once intercollegiate wrestling champion at Yale. "You have to chisel down to the skin," explained ex-Wrestler Miller, cupping his square hands, "and not a fraction farther...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two of a Kind | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...school-building programs of 1888. The building has no gymnasium, and its tiny playground is hardly large enough for one class at a time. It has just seven toilets for 600 boys, provides neither toilet paper nor towels. Children attending the school periodically suffer from scabies, a skin disease usually caused by filth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Educational Slums | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

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